Thursday, June 12, 2003

Belkin to offer new 6-port FireWire hub/repeater Peripheral maker Belkin Corp. plans to offer a new six port FireWire hub later this month. The new hub also acts as a FireWire repeater, enabling you to put your peripherals farther away from your Mac than before. The Belkin F5U526 is a FireWire 400 device -- with a data throughput of 400Mbps. It works with any FireWire peripherals including Webcams, storage devices, scanners, pritners, camcorders and more, enabling one FireWire port on your Mac to support up to six separate peripherals. The Belkin hub sports 6-pin ports and supports bus power. Belkin is also pitching the new hub to Sony PlayStation 2 owners, who can use iLink -- Sony's term for FireWire -- to do head-to-head gaming on separate consoles. [MacCentral] 7:53:50 AM    comment []